An aquatic adventure in the western Pacific island nation of Palau — home to over 300 islands — highlights the reward of protecting the planet’s marine ecosystems.

Isolated Canton Island ... a National Geographic–U.S. Navy expedition hauled 22,000 pounds of equipment from Washington, D.C., to Honolulu and then 1,900 miles farther into the Pacific Ocean ...

Maria Stenzel, National Geographic Stock With his ships ... Like today’s astronauts, the Pacific Island boatbuilders and sailors would have enjoyed a social cachet that enhanced mating ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic ... Their backs to the Pacific, 15 restored moai stand watch at Ahu Tongariki, the largest of Easter Island’s ceremonial stone ...

A region of the Pacific Ocean that’s larger ... In 2023, researchers with National Geographic Pristine Seas and the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority completed an exploratory ...

Banner image: The Marshall Islands’ new marine sanctuary will protect one of the most pristine areas of the Pacific Ocean. Image courtesy of Manu San Félix/National Geographic Pristine Seas.

Sala, 56, is not simply a marine adventurer; his mission, through the National Geographic project conservation organisation Pristine Seas, is to provide governments with the scientific data they need ...

They had been filming near the island of Malaulalo for National Geographic’s Pristine Seas project, which aims to promote the creation of new marine protected areas. The team was working in ...

A crew of National Geographic's Pristine Seas marine ... the central part of the South Pacific, and now in Solomon Islands. "There seems to be something going on in this particular area of the ...

Scientists aboard a National Geographic research ... known coral in the southwest Pacific Ocean, a massive specimen of Pavona clavus. Found near the Three Sisters islands in the Solomon Islands ...